I find Vash/Meryl a problem because so much of it's written from an anime perspective (understandably, given the lack of evidence for it in the manga) and I just... can't love anime Vash. I can like him sometimes, feel sorry for him sometimes, but he also gets right up my nose too, because he stinks so much of an evangelical preacher, holding to every word of the Religion of Rem and insisting that everyone who thinks otherwise has to be wrong. I think that's what you mean by Saint!Vash, but for me, that guy's so far from a saint it's not freaking funny.
The only Vash I could imagine befriending, wanting to spend time with, is manga Vash, with his doubts and his flexibility and his shades of grey, his willingness to put real living people before ideology. That Vash is human in a way the man in the anime can never be. But any manga Vash/Meryl would have to come after Wolfwood's death, and take Wolfwood's influence into account, and there's very little of that out there.
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Date: 2006-11-28 07:07 am (UTC)The only Vash I could imagine befriending, wanting to spend time with, is manga Vash, with his doubts and his flexibility and his shades of grey, his willingness to put real living people before ideology. That Vash is human in a way the man in the anime can never be. But any manga Vash/Meryl would have to come after Wolfwood's death, and take Wolfwood's influence into account, and there's very little of that out there.